Edison

Edison

Edison township (1990 pop. 88,680), Middlesex co., NE N.J., inc. 1870 as Raritan Township, renamed 1954. Edison's varied manufactures include light trucks, chemicals, metal products, electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, and instruments. Raritan Center is the largest industrial park east of the Mississippi. Menlo Park , the former site of Thomas A. Edison 's laboratories, now is a residential community in the township.

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Edison A programming language for designing reliable real-time programs for multiprocessor systems. Edison is block-structured and includes modules, concurrent statements, and when statements.

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Edison, New Jersey/USA Raritan Renamed in 1954 after Thomas Edison (1847–1931), best known as the inventor of the light bulb and phonograph, who set up his research laboratory here.

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Edison, Tesla, and the battle of the currents: should electricity be AC or DC?
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Edison powers up a plan. (Detroit Edison Co.)
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